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Mon, 15 May 2017 10:32:32 +0200260_TueMay1611:11:45+02002017THE BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF A TEAR - THE CINEMA OF ALBERTO GRIFI by Stefania Rossi about Alberto Grifi in advance sale
Alberto Grifi, the most important Italian experimental film director, the author of Anna a cult movie - The biological evolution of a tear - Stefania Rossi tells his story in a book.
However, this is not all. Stefania Ross offers the world a book where many voices are heard - voices where the voices of actors, film directors, artists and critics recall Grifi all along a season of creativity and the radical advancement they have shared with him. We relive the tumultuous years of the Seventies full of passion: a journey not only along the life of a pioneer devoted to artistic renewal but from the perspective of a social and political vision of a crucial epoch in our history.
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Fri, 05 May 2017 13:02:34 +0200259_MonMay1512:51:54+02002017SPECIAL EVENT "VIVA GRIFI" from Tuesday 2nd to Thursday 4th of MayApollo11
in collaboration with the
The Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi
ten years after the film director has passed away
is presenting a
SPECIAL EVENT - VIVA GRIFI from Tuesday 2nd to Thursday 4th of May
c/o Itis Galilei side entrance of via Bixio, 80/a (corner of via Conte Verde) - Roma
A review lasting three days dedicated to the most representative underground cinema film maker as well as an Italian activist
Tuesday May 2nd7 p.m. Roberto Silvestri presents
VERIFICA INCERTA (30', 1964)L'OCCHIO È PER COSÌ DIRE L'EVOLUZIONE BIOLOGICA DI UNA LAGRIMA / AUTORITRATTO AUSCHWITZ (35', 1965-68/2007)IN VIAGGIO VERSO ALBERTO GRIFI (17', 2013) by canecapovolto9 p.m. Donatello Fumarola presents
IL GRANDE FREDDO (20', 1971)LIA (26', 1977)ALBERTO GRIFI (29', 2006) by Insu^tv
Wednesday May 3rd7 p.m. Adriano Aprà and Stefania Rossi present
ANNA (225', 1975)
Thursday May 4th7 p.m. Annamaria Licciardello presents
MICHELE ALLA RICERCA DELLA FELICITÀ (23', 1978)DINNI E LA NORMALINA (27', 1978)MA CHI È QUESTO GRIFI (28', 1998) by Cristina Mazza and Giordana Meyer
9 p.m. Alessandra Vanzi and Roberto Perpignani presentsA PROPOSITO DEGLI EFFETTI SPECIALI (66', 2001, unpublished version)
Verifica incerta (1964, 30')
A motion picture massacre of famous hollywood films re-assembled with a touch of Dada: presented for the first time in in Paris, it aroused the enthusiasm of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst as well as the scorn paraded by many famous Italian motion picture critics. John Cage, enthusiastic about the sound track, presented it at the New York Museum of Modern Art.
L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima / Autoritratto Auschwitz (1965/68-2007, 35')
A voice-over reads a statement where a report was made describing the abuse suffered by a youth being transferred from the San Vittore prison in Milan to the Marmone prison in Sardinia.
The shots,among which some parts discarded from Il deserto rosso where Monica Vitti attempts to shed tears, were found in the containers of some moviola and assembled on a film taken on the site of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
In viaggio verso Alberto Grifi (2013, 17') by canecapovolto
Alberto Grifi interviewed by Canecapovolto with Roberto Silvestri.
Il grande freddo (1971, 20')
A film on painting and its negation. Giordano busy with the Bella Addormentata. A challenge. Will art, free of museums and academies succeed in giving back the will to live to the girl raped and abandoned on the snow? Giordano, Principe Azzurro loaded with a butterfly catchers and rotating optical games, crawls along sinking into the snow and …… but revolutionary creativity isn't what makes birds sing in their cages but it is the reason why caged birds break their cages!
Lia (1977, 26')
The intervention of a female student at a "controconvegno" at the Fabbrica della Comunicazione di Brera, against anti-psychiatric convention by A. Vermiglione.
Alberto Grifi (2006, 29') by Insu^tv
"What did the revolution promise?" It was to change life. It is useless to attempt this….. life is ugly. It is necessary to fight to change it and film it while it is being changed, film it while life becomes more beautiful, socially more active and meaningful.
Goodbye Alberto - your words are still alive.
Anna (1972-75')
11 hours of filming, then cut down to 3 hours 45 minutes where a sixteen-year-old hippy, pregnant and drugged was wandering around Piazza Navona. The video, transferred onto film via an equipment built by Grifi himself, was then presented at the Berlin Festival and the Biennale in Venice in 1975 and later in Cannes in 1976.
Michele alla ricerca della felicità (1978, 23')
A film first commissioned then censored by Raidue, where Michele, a political prisoner was forced to witness the violence and torment of the prison guards on a drug addict.
Dinni e la normalina (1978, 27')
A fanta political tale where the state compels certain citizens into model workers through the means of a drug - the normalina - but the results were unexpected.
Ma chi è questo Grifi (1998, 28') di Cristina Mazza e Giordana Meyer
An interminable interview of Alberto Grifi where he described his origins and his first experiences that populated Italy's contemporary history and the most important events of our society.His childhood during fascism, the fortune have having belonged to a family involved in the moving picture industry from which he inherited the passion, creativity, discovery of the importance of independent moving picture work and far from the cinema industry. The 70's marked by juvenile objections side by side with the extreme experimentation of new style of language, political militancy, an ongoing, extraordinary but necessary battle to preserve his own territory of freedom.
A proposito degli effetti speciali (2001, 66', unpublished version)
A film about the patrimony donated by the underground cinema ranging from the historical avant gardes with Alessandra Vanzi (La Gaia Scienza) in the role of Miss Ontophilogenesis, Grifi e Man Ray (filmed in his studio in Paris with Gianfranco Baruchello) reflections in a distorted mirror.
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Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:52:55 +0200258_TueMay0210:22:36+02002017Alberto Grifi (22nd of April 2007 – 22nd of April 2017)It is now 10 years since Alberto Grifi passed away thus the Cultural Association, bearing his name as he had wished as well as founding it for the purpose of preserving, enhancing, promoting and spreading his works. The Association is now considering the first results by achieving important objectives and in this way honoring the memory of the man, of the artist as well as of a friend.
In the first place, let us mention that already for some months, activities involving the recovery and digitizing the most obsolete and risky archived material have begun, among which you will find ½ inch dedicated to Parco Lambro (27 hours) analog tapes, reduced personally (14 hours),and audio tapes on Zavattini. Recovery was financed equally by the Alberto Grifi Cultural Association and by the CSC-Cineteca Nazionale di Roma (National Film Archive) performed at the Camera Ottica at Gorizia.
After Anna was saved some years ago via the recovery and digitization of 11 filming hours and the recovery of the copy of the tape. Because of this new operation we are happy to have terminated what Alberto was most keen about during the last few years of his life and which he was the protagonist together with Interact of the technical project for the recovery of his oldest video tapes and consequently those more risky.
In the second place, thanks to the fundamental contribution of the CSC - the National Film Archive, during these years the works (in particular Anna) and the figure of the Alberto Grifi were promoted and distributed all over the world as a testimony of his already international profile. A few examples follow:
Cinema MM center (Zagabria) - 2017
Peggy Guggenheim (Venezia) - 2016
CIC - Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo - 2016
Xcèntric, the cinema of the CCCB (Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona) - 2014
Festival L'Age d'Or della Cinematek du Belgique (Bruxelles) - 2014
Sao Paulo International Film Festival - 2014
Copenaghen International Documentary Film Festival - 2014
Histoires en devenir (Ginevra) - 2014
Festival DMZ Docs di Paju (Corea del sud) - 2014
Lincoln Center (New York) - 2014
Centre Pompidou (Parigi) - 2014
Torino Film Festival - 2013
Cinema Spoutnik (Ginevra) - 2013
Festival Internazionale di Amiens (Francia) - 2013
Mumok (Vienna) - 2013
Images Détournées al Cinéma Action Christine (Parigi) - 2013
Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) - 2012
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma di Montreal (Canada) - 2012
Fid - International Film Festival Marseille - 2012
Light Industry (New York) - 2012
Tate Modern (Londra) - 2012
Cinéma du Réel (Parigi) - 2012
Berlinale - 2012
International Film Festival di Rotterdam - 2012
Festival di Venezia - 2011
Lussas Doc - 2011
Festa del Cinema di Roma - 2007
Festival di Venezia - 2007
The main figure in essays, novels and and works of International artists such as:
Constanze Rhum
http://www.constanzeruhm.net/portfolio/invisible-producers-appetit-d-oiseau.phtml
Rachel Kushner
http://english.albertogrifi.com/119?post=253
https://ilmanifesto.it/rachel-kushner-nel-fuoco-della-storia/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3729262/?ref_=nm_dev_1
Without forgetting all the requests arriving along these years from Italy: copies of films for reviews and exhibitions, rights involving the use of cinematographic and tv documents, contributions for studies, research and publishing essays.
Last but not least, before the year is out the Association has the ambitious objective involving a project regarding the research, selection and preservation of material on paper and photographs currently inexistent on archive as well as a project to render them available to the public.
Our memory, our commitment.
The Alberto Grifi Cultural Association.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=258
Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:26:47 +0200257_ThuOct0914:26:47+02002014Anna by Alberto Grifi & Massimo Sarchielli at Brussels, Copenaghen and San PaoloNew international appointments for Anna by Alberto Grifi &amp; Massimo Sarchielli in the recently restored version at the Festival L'Age d'Or della Cinematek du Belgique in Bruxelles on October 14. It will later be shown at the Sao Paulo International Film Festival (October16-29) and in November at the CPH:DOX Copenaghen International Documentary Film Festival (November 6-16).http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=257
Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:24:57 +0200256_ThuOct0914:24:57+02002014Lia di Alberto Grifi presents "Histoires en devenir" at GenevaOn September 18 2014, Lia by Alberto Grifi opened the review of Le réel et le possibile (September 18 - November 8 2014) curated by Raphael Cuomo and Maria Iorio at the Spoutnik cinema in Geneva. Approximately 1000 spectators watched this film by Alberto Grifi in 1976. It was about the intervention of a young girl, a student in the 'counter convention' at the Fabbrica della Comunicazione at Brera, opposed to the convention of anti-psychiatry by A. Vermiglione.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=256
Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:11:07 +0200255_MonSep2915:38:37+02002014Spaghetti Wasteland – The Secret History of Italian Music from Morricone to Parco Lambro ‘76 at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di VeneziaOn 4th and 5th October 2014 - within the context of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia - NERO is pleased to present Spaghetti Wasteland - The Secret History of Italian Music from Morricone to Parco Lambro '76,a two-day event dedicated to the so-called "spaghetti-sound," a peculiar kind of music that emerged in Italy in the 60s and 70s thanks to the work of artists such as Ennio Morricone, Franco Battiato, Goblin, Area and many others.This typical Italian sound can be described as a mixture of avant-garde research and pop contaminations, born and developed across contexts such as film scoring, experimental rock, youth counterculture movements and other hybrid creative fields of the era.
During the first day of Spaghetti Wasteland, British electronic duo Demdike Stare will conduct a special workshop/performance demonstrating how original spaghetti-sound sources are used within their own music, which is often a kind of homage to the Italian atmospheres of that period. During the presentation, a group of guests - composed of journalist and TV presenter Costantino della Gherardesca, music critic Enrico Bettinello, Onga of the indie record label Boring Machines, and moderated by music writer Valerio Mattioli - will discuss the cultural issues raised by Demdike Stare's choices and references. Before and after the workshop, a selection of spaghetti-sound materials from the 70s will be broadcast in the spaces of the Arsenale. Later in the evening a special concert by Demdike Stare will be held at Spazio Aereo club in Mestre, as part of the Spaghetti Wasteland After Party which also includes a dj set by Italian producer Francisco and a performance by electronic artist Von Tesla.
The second day is devoted to live performances by some of spaghetti-sound's most prominent contemporary heirs: a new breed of bands - such as Mamuthones, Squadra Omega, Mai Mai Mai and Heroin In Tahiti - that update the lesson of the 60s and 70s masters while contaminating it with the aesthetics of the 2000s. The concert will be opened by a screening of Parco Lambro 1976, a film by avant-garde icon Alberto Grifi which documents the event that symbolically put an end to a decade of Italian creative explosion.
Spaghetti Wasteland provides a first attempt to analyze the so-called spaghetti-sound, a unique cultural phenomenon that stands as one of the last Italian cultural products capable of differentiating itself from the dominant British and American pop-music models.
Program:
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4
h. 2 pm - Arsenale
Listening sessions:
Musica per sonorizzazioni - Italian Library Music, 1969-1976
Sequenze e frequenze - Spaghetti-Sound, 1970-1975
h. 4 pm - Arsenale
Workshop:
Demdike Stare live composition workshop/performance + visuals
Live discussion with guests:
Enrico Bettinello (Il giornale della musica, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Rai Radio 3), Onga (Boring Machines), Costantino Della Gherardesca (Rai Radio 2), Sean Canty (Demidike Stare, Finders Keepers Records), Miles Whittaker (Demdike Stare) [Moderated by: Valerio Mattioli]
h. 10 pm - Spazio Aereo
Spaghetti Wasteland After Party
Live:
Demdike Stare (UK)
Von Tesla (ITA)
Italo disco DJ sets:
Francisco (ITA)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 5
h. 12 pm - Arsenale
Screening:
Parco Lambro '76 by Alberto Grifi
(in collaboration with "Associazione Alberto Grifi")
h. 4 pm - Arsenale
Spaghetti Wasteland Now and Then: the new Italian psychedelia
Live concerts:
Squadra Omega
Mamuthones
Mai Mai Mai
Heroin in Tahiti
SPAGHETTI WASTELAND - The Secret History of Italian Music from Morricone to Parco Lambro '76
A project by NERO for the section Weekend Specials of Monditalia at the 14thInternational Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia
Date: October 4-5, 2014
Locations: Arsenale / Spazio Aereo - Venezia, Italyhttp://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=255
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:27:13 +0200254_TueSep1616:27:13+02002014Anna by Grifi & Sarchielli in a restored version at the DMZ Docs 2014Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli is participating in the new edition of the DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival to be held in Paju, South Korea. The Festival has reached its Sixth Edition and offers documentary films divided into three main sections: competitive, non-competitive and special. Anna has been entered in the non-competitive section called "Passage". It will be shown in the version of a restored copy on both September 19 and 24.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=254
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:19:52 +0100252_ThuDec0516:19:52+01002013"Anna", Expanded Cinema by Grifi and Sarchielli at the Torino Film Festival 311st Torino Film Festival - TFFDoc/Documents
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with the Alberto Grifi Cultural Association
presents
Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli - Expanded Cinema
Curated by Annamaria Licciardello and Jacopo Chessa
Anna, the film created by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli in 1975, is already part of Italian Film History. The CSC-Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with the Alberto Grifi Cultural Association were responsible for the digital conversion of the original filming (about 11 hours), the recovery and conversion carried out by the La Camera Ottica, a conversion laboratory of the DAMS in Gorizia, the Università degli Studi in Udine, and it is proposed for the first night showing at the Torino Film Festival in the Galleria Alberto Peola and the Cinema Reposi.
The faces, voices and bodies of Anna will be shown in a guise that nobody in these thirty eight years have ever seen. These reels, not organized in chronological order, fragmented, stratified, will show the public the novelty and diversity of the medium as they have been experienced by the authors. The material will be projected in two parts. The programme will be presented as follows:
Galleria Alberto Peola
via della Rocca 29, Torino
Saturday November 23, at 1 p.m.
Inaugural aperitif and presentation by A. Aprà, A. Licciardello, J. Chessa and A. Bordina
Parlando di Anna (2h53')
Anna se ne va (1h19')
Sunday November 24, at 2.30 p.m.
Incontri a casa di Massimo (4h54')
Monday November 25, at 2.30 p.m.
La Roma di Anna (2h42')
Finzioni (1h55')
Cinema Reposihttp://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=252
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 16:11:25 +0100251_ThuDec0516:11:25+01002013Verifica Incerta by Baruchello and Grifi at the 33rd International Festival at Amiens (from November 8 to 16 2013)The 33rd edition of the International Cinema Festival at Amiens hosts the projection of the Verifica Incerta by Gianfranco Baruchello and Alberto Grifi. The Alberto Grifi Cultural Association, has over the years dedicated its activities of promoting and enhancing the works of Alberto Grifi and has continued its contacts with the Festival Organisation providing a copy of the film to be shown. The Festival is one of the major appointments with a participation in the European scenario of the independent cinema field. The Festival originated in 1980 thanks to the passion of a group of student cinema fans as they weren't happy about the programmes offered by the theatres. They then decided to create first an association, then a film magazine followed by a film festival. This festival was different and was open to all those international films that couldn't take part in the international circuits.
This year's edition presents over 300 works and hosts the review "L'autre néoréalisme" that offers a historical, cultural panorama ranging from the Italian Neorealistic Cinema of the postwar period up to documentary, independent films of the seventies. During this period there were many protagonists such as Baruchello and Grifi together with great names of the Italian cinema such as Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ermanno Olmi, Cesare Zavattini, Dino Risi, Michelangelo Antonioni e tanti altri.
November 13 at 4 p.m. Verifica Incerta by Baruchello and Grifi at the 33rd Internaltional Cinema at Amiens.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=251
Thu, 09 May 2013 15:41:38 +0200250_ThuMay0915:58:30+02002013The Autoritratto Auschwitz/ L’occhio è per così dire l’evoluzione biologica di una lagrima will be presented at the Mumok di Vienna on May 29. The last work of Alberto Grifi, the Autoritratto Auschwitz / L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima, will be presented on May 29, 2013 at the MUMOK ini Vienna in the version edited in 2007. Il MUMOK, the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Vienna, has included the film in the programme KINO thanks as well to the contributions of artists, historians and scholars, wishing to explore the relationships between visual, performance and avant-garde arts and the social sciences. The May 29 event under the name of "Testing Rehearsals", sponsored by the historian a Sabeth Buchmann and the artist Constanze Ruhm (already involved in Alberto Grifi's works during the event dedicated to ANNA by Grifi &amp; Sarchielli at the Arsenal in Berlin last December), investigates the dynamics in producing emotions between reality and invention.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=250
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:09:44 +0200249_TueApr2315:09:44+02002013A journey towards GrifiSix years have passed since Alberto Grifi left us. The Associazione Culturale wishes to remember him by publishing one of the latest interviews to the film director that Canecapovolto made and whom we thank for his availability and participation. Show the video.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=249
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:45:47 +0200245_MonApr2217:21:36+02002013Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli at the Spoutnik of GinevraSPK WVF: DIALOGO # 1
From Saturday April 13 to Saturday April 27 2013
Cinema Spoutnik and Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain are this month inaugurating a sheduled appointment with cinema and audio/visual media. During this first edition, Twisted Realism, two artists Raphael Cuomo and Maria Iorio intend to compare two films MAMMA ROMA by Pierpaolo Pasolini and ANNA by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli. The latter is an exceptional film, recently rediscovered thanks to the restored version by the Bologna Film Library in collaboration with the Associazione Alberto Grifi. The stars of the films were two actresses: a prostitute played by Anna Magnani and the outcast Anna, who after 10 years from each other, both live in the most underprivileged areas of Rome.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=245
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:59:40 +0200248_MonApr2217:59:40+02002013Immagine leggera and Alberto GrifiSponsored by the Filmoteca Regionale Siciliana and the Associazione
Culturale Alberto Grifi.
In 1997, "Immagine leggera", the Palermo Video Art and Experimental Cinema curated by Alessandro Rais and the staff of the Filmoteca Regionale Siciliana (Marcello Alajmo, Ignazio Plaia, Maurizio Spadaro), presented a selection of the works by Alberto Grifi where the author was also present. Sixteen years later, the Filmoteca Regionale Siciliana proposed the same works again followed by an unpublished interview to Alberto Grifi curated by Canecapovolto with Roberto Silvestri.
Alessandro Aiello and Franco Marineo will take part.
Program:
"Transfert per kamera verso Virulentia" by Alberto Grifi (Italy 1966-67, 22')
Grifi documents a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, using lens, prisms and distorted mirrors to create a "new geography of perception and boundless imagery.
"Il grande freddo" by Alberto Grifi (Italy 1971, 20')
A film about Giordano Falzoni an artist , about painting and its negation where the video camera is the weapon to be used to fight against the dictatorship of painting.
"La verifica incerta" by Alberto Grifi, (Italy 1964, 30')
A masterpiece from the Italian Underground Cinema, was produced between 1963 and 1964 by Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello, a conceptual painter. The two artists purchased 150.000 meters of film - destination debris and worked on the material by selecting and then re-assembling it using the "detournement" method creating a primordial blob to desecrate the type of cinema characterized by Hollywood.
"In viaggio verso Grifi", an unpublished interview by Canecapovolto to
Alberto Grifi with Roberto Silvestri (Italy 2006-2013, 16')
Alberto Grifi (Rome, May 29 1938, April 22 2007) film director, cameraman, painter, photographer, author of video-cinematographic equipments, is considered to be among the greatest representatives of the Italian Experimental Cinema. He started off by filming the theatrical work "Cristo '63" by Carmelo Bene which was however censored and the recording, confiscated by the police, is to be considered lost. Among his main works, "Verifica incerta" (1964, with Gianfranco Baruchello), a film the editing of which took famous Hollywood films to pieces causing the enthusiasm of Man
Ray, John Cage and Max Ernst; "In viaggio con Patrizia" (1965), a journey along the phonetic poetry by Patrizia Vicinelli with the music of Paolo Fresu; "No stop grammatica" (1967), a happening lasting 12 hours with a soundtrack made up of pieces of magnetic film distributed among the crowd and then assembled again;
"Non soffiare nel narghilè" (1970), filmed in the Terrasini hippy community; "Anna" (1972-1973, directed together with Massimo Sarchielli), perhaps the most famous of his works, created with the first portable open-reel, quarte-inch, video-recorder that had arrived in Italy and was presented in 1975 at the Festival of Berlino, at the Biennale of Venezia and at the Festival of Cannes; "Michele alla ricerca della
felicità" (1978), a film about prison conditions first commissioned and then censored by the Rai.
Grifi designed and used the videographer as well as the tape launderette to be used for regenerating the physical condition of the analogue tape emulsion and its transfer back to the digital media, a structure specifically designed to restore video tapes recorded during the period 1960 to 1970.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=248
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:36:20 +0200247_MonApr2217:43:32+020020136 years without GrifiAn evening performance at Bologna to remember the father of the Italian Underground Cinema, in collaboration with the Associazione culturale Alberto Grifi of Rome.
AT 7.30 P.M. - POPCORN HOUR - UNPUBLISHED WORDS BY ALBERTO - FRIENDS of RECENT YEARS
An hour on Blob, a Verifica Incerta on/with/for Alberto Grifi: unpublished images, tokens and suggestions collected over the years by his friends/ followers to be projected in the foyer of the Sala.
AT 9 P.M. SHOWING OF FIVE OF ALBERTO GRIFI's FILMS
The works will be introduced by Monica Dall'Asta (DAMS Cinema di Bologna lecturer).
Six years after his death, Kinodromo pays a heartfelt homage to the greatest representative of the Italian Experimental Cinema: Alberto Grifi, a unique, eclectic, forceful and anti-conventional personality. He was in fact a painter, film director, cameraman, sound engineer, actor, airplane advertisement photographer and a creator of video/ cinematography equipment.
Apart from a plentiful video production, Grifi has left us machinery, photographs, interviews and correspondence which, over the years, had been collected by a group of his students, supporters and followers who do not wish to (and cannot) forget him. The Associazione culturale Alberto Grifi (among which Ivan, the son of the film director and the President Sandro Costa are part of its promoting partners) represents today the official reference point for all the major initiatives linked to the name and works of the Roman artist.
A list of the films to be shown accompanied by Grifi's autographical notes, follows:
LA VERIFICA INCERTA BY ALBERTO GRIFI AND GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO (ITALY, 1964, 30 MIN)
"The destruction and desecrating re-editing of 150 thousand meters of film, that is 47 box-office films of the fifties and sixties (mostly American commercial cinemascope) purchased in the form of waste material - destination debris. The original film comprised pieces of film stuck together with scotch tape according to unknown assembly methods (the script was the destination and not the starting point of the film) and the result of an initial selection carried out through the use of a table of random numbers. the stories, surrounded by fires, shipwrecks, natural catastrophes and wars of all kinds and periods flowed into each other in the following way: Audrey Hepburn from a tourist airplane bombs the u-boat of the Nazi Curd Jurgens; Her Royal Highness the Queen of England interferes in a loveaffair between the Pharaoh Victor Mature and a Palestinian dancer,a friend of Jesus Christ, while Victor Mature, in the guise of a gangster, bursts into the Katacomben Restaurant, which he entered to set his wife free when she was a prisoner of the Vikings, to the Santè in Paris.The film was shown for the first time in Paris in May 1965, presented by Marcel Duchamp, to whom it was dedicated, to an extraordinary public (Man Ray, Max Ernst, John Cage, the latter enthusiastic about the sound track)".
TRANSFERT PER KAMERA VERSO VIRULENTIA BY ALBERTO GRIFI (ITALY, 1966-67, 22 MIN)
"Virulentia was first and foremost a "place" for theatrical experiments and at the same time a proposal for exiting from the theatre, set up by Aldo Braibanti, a "place" where, through single real experiences that actors brought with themselves onto the stage, where living, searching, poetry and love flowed into each other. The camera approached this psycho-dramatic collective ritual in an attempt to "re-invent" the history of seeing, the biological evolution of the eye that, from the primordial waters such as the amniotic ones, appears on the land; again experiencing together with the actors the evolution that the species have passed through and attempting to show how during the past our animal ancestors appeared during our dreams and during our daily behaviour.
THE GREAT CHILL THAT IS: WILL GIORDANO FALZONI IN THE ROLE OF PRINCE CHARMING BEARING ROTATING OPTICAL GAMES BE ABLE TO GIVE BACK THE DESIRE TO LIVE TO SLEEPING BEAUTY? BY ALBERTO GRIFI (ITALY, 1970, 20 MIN)
"Film dedicated to (and created together with) Giordano Falzoni, one of the most eccentric and fascinating protagonists of Gruppo '63. This film is about painting and its negation that shows Giordano struggling with Sleeping Beauty. This is the challenge! Will art, free of museums and academies, be able to give back to the child, raped and then abandoned on the snow, the desire to go on living? Giordano, the Prince Charming bearing butterfly catchers and rotating optical games, plods along sinking into the snow and …. but isrevolutionary creativity is not the one that makes the bird in the cage sing: it is the reason why the imprisoned bird breaks the cage!".
MICHELE ALLA RICERCA DELLA FELICITÀ BY ALBERTO GRIFI (ITALY, 1978, 23 MIN)
"Michele, a political prisoner was transferred to a small prison. Raffaele, a thief, stated to be a habitual delinquent,who was in the same cell, managed to receive a program from a private TV channel showing a debate about the prison. A third inmate Giulio arrived there who was drug addict suffering from lack of heroin. The whole night through Michele asks for a guard in vain to call for a doctor. The next day, as a result of this disturbance, he was dragged to a punishment cell beaten by three guards and a sergeant with his face covered by a handkerchief. In a quarrel between Michele, still bleeding and a "higher rank democrat" relives the increasing irreconcilable dispute between the PCI (Communist Party) and the independent Communists. Giulio, the drug addict, hangs himself on the cell bars. The last scene shows the sergeant urinating on a newspaper showing the text "young drug addict dies in prison". It should have been broadcast just on the same evening when Moro was kidnapped and was definitely suppressed with this excuse (though Portobello that evening went on just the same) and it later disappeared in the cellars of Viale Mazzini.
DINNI E LA NORMALINA BY ALBERTO GRIFI (ITALY, 1978, 27 MIN)
"It was made from two different materials: an activist videotape in black and white in 1976-77, during the protests against anti-psychiatry at the conference organized in Milan by Armando Vermiglione, a futuristic political story. In the plot it is assumed that the State transformed all its citizens into perfect employees and workers who were willing to partake in this treatment through the use of one of its drugs, normaline (whose stabilizing effects lasted for 8 months followed by painful withdrawal crises). Certain normaline drugs had deteriorated consequently creating illegal groups of dissidents and terrorists. The video police used the videotapes to overcome them and they were on the verge of getting their hands on their leader. Dinni then woke up - it al only a dream but reality was nevertheless hard enough ….. "!
WHERE: Kinodromo @ Cinema Europa, via Pietralata 55, Bologna
WHEN: Monday April 15 2013 from 7.30 p.m. POPCORN HOUR / 9 p.m. projection
PRICE: From 9 p.m. the showings will cost 4 euros and for possessors of the Kinodomo card it will cost 3 euros. Tickets can be obtained directlly at the cinema.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=247
Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:15:20 +0100244_TueMar0512:18:58+01002013IMAGES DÉTOURNÉES in Paris on March12, 2013. La Verifica Incerta by Baruchello & Grifi will also be presented.A day dedicated to 5 masterpieces, belonging to the Italian experimental cinema of the sixties, created by recovering and editing/assembly of audio visual parts coming from films in cinemascope, private films and porno films. La verifica incerta by Gianfranco Baruchello and Alberto Grifi, a pioneering work in this particular Dadaistic version of the experimental Italian cinema. Works by Piero Bargellini, Paolo Gioli, Giorgio Turi and Guido Lombardi were also presented. The Parisian event was organized by the French LIGHT CONE, an association involved in safeguarding and promoting experimental cinema, in collaboration with the Cineteca Nazionale, the Archivio del cinema d'impresa and the Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi presented by Annamaria Licciardello (Cineteca Nazionale).
Info
Tuesday March 12, 2013 - 8.30 p.m.
Cinéma Action Christine - 4, rue Christine 75006 Parigi
Email: lightcone@lightcone.orghttp://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=244
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:53:04 +0100243_MonOct2916:59:24+01002012Review on Alberto Grifi at the Viennale The Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) will host a Review on Alberto Grifi from the 1st to the 7th of November proposed together with the Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi and the CIneteca Nazionale. After Paris, Lussas, Rotterdam, Berlin, London and New York, great interest has continued to be shown outside Italy in the works of Alberto Grifi, this time with a monographic review complete with 10 titles, selected by Annamaria Licciardello from the Cineteca Nazionale and made available for the archives of the Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi: La verifica Incerta, Orgonauti, evviva!, Michele alla ricerca della felicità, Lia, Il grande freddo, Autoritratto Auschwitz/L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima, Il festival del proletariato giovanile al Parco Lambro, Dinni e la normalina, A proposito degli effetti speciali, Anna (in the recently restored version)http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=243
Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:41:03 +0100242_MonOct2916:41:03+01002012NIGHT (GRIFI) WITHOUT END at the MACAO - Milano Night without end has come back after the summer interval to pay homage to Alberto Grifi, the great, tireless experimentalist of forms and languages ever with an eye to social and political events in our country.
Anna will be shown from the 22nd - a document/monument against the cinema and a reflection on the ethics from the documentary point of view
This will be followed until dawn by images taken from the Festival of the Proletariat Youth at Parco Lambro in 1976. All the four hours at present available of the entire material will be shown (27 video hours plus 3 16mm hours, waiting to be restored for years) that Grifi filmed together with many collaborators during the days of the Festival organized by Re Nudo. Night without end proposed this material in the most extreme, disorderly (non-) form possible, with the pure and simple 'filming' until dawn broke.
In collaboration with the Associazione Alberto Grifi
www.albertogrifi.com
Macao, 10 p.m. Friday October 26, presented by Gianmarco Torri.
(it is advisable to bring cushions and sleeping bags)http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=242
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:38:25 +0200241_TueJul1012:01:59+02002012Sangue fresco, Paperina and Parco Lambro"Young people! How to define them? A sociological category, i believe" This is how the long article, recently found again in an archive called "Sangue fresco" written by Alberto Grifi in 1993 for the Movie Magazine, begins and which we have decided to publish entirely together with the 58' version of the Il festival del proletariato giovanile al Parco Lambro (1976), assembled and commented by Alberto himself. One of the stars appearing in the video, Paperina, writes a moving, tender memory for Alberto, after having seen the video Paperina si rivede (1996) for the first time today where Alberto is commenting and looking at it, twenty years after his intervention at Parco Lambro.
Following the recent restyling of the site in Italian albertogrifi.com Alberto now speaks English
We remind you that all the videos dell'Associazione Grifi (http://www.youtube.com/user/AssociazioneGrifi?feature=watch) broadcast onto YouTube are now available for viewing.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=241
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:21:05 +0200238_TueJun1211:29:37+02002012Albertogrifi.com now speaks EnglishFollowing the recent restyling of the www.albertogrifi.com site in Italian, we are happy to inform you that the English version is now on site.
For the purpose of promoting the works and figure of Alberto Grifi, the Associazione culturale Alberto Grifi website aims to act as a reference point for those artists and researchers who wish to find in the various facets and expressions he has created, a path to follow through human, professional growth and development.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=238
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:52:04 +0200236_TueJun1209:57:16+02002012Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli at the New York Light IndustryThe Light Industry is located in Brooklyn, New York. It was created and supervised by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter. The project envisaged a series of recurrent events organized over week-ends involving artists, critics and curators.
Going back to a long lasting New York tradition that proposed alternative artistic spaces, the Light Industry is today a meeting point for the public as far as contemporary art, experimental cinema, new media and documentary films are concerned.
Anna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli will be hosted by Light Industry on Saturday June 9th, at 3 p.m. showing a version of a restored copy already presented in Venice 68, thanks to the contribution by the Cineteca Nazionale, the Cineteca di Bologna and the Associazione Alberto Grifi.http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=236
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:02:24 +0200237_TueJun1211:07:57+02002012Michele alla ricerca della felicità by Alberto Grifi at the “E dopo?” conference in Milan.The "E dopo?" (And then?) Conference was held in Milan on Monday the 21st of May. This is the time to ponder on the conditions and prospects of ex prisoners in our country.
It was organized by the CulturAperta Association and hosted at the Casa della Carità where the conference covered various live testimonies, theatrical pieces and interventions by speakers. Among these there were the Town Councillor from the Casa del Comune di Milano, Lucia Castellano, Giovanna Di Rosa from the High Magistrates Court, Paolo Giulini the criminologist, Sonia Stefanizzi the sociologist, don Virginio Colmegna and Gianmarco Torri Associazione culturale Alberto Grifi who presented the projection of certain fragments from "Michele alla ricerca della felicità, the work filmed in 1978 by the Roman artist in collaboration with Guido Blumir. The film was first commissioned then censured by Raidue. Its main character regarded Michele, a political prisoner who was present during the violent actions and aggressive attacks of the prison guards on a drug addict.
http://www.casadellacarita.org/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/1
http://www.culturaperta.it/http://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=237
Fri, 04 May 2012 10:17:17 +0200235_MonJun1117:45:24+02002012Anna by Alberto Grifi e Massimo Sarchielli at the Tate Modern in LondonAnna by Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli will be given at the Tate Modern in London on the 20th of May. The film Anna will be included in the Alighiero Boetti Game Plan and will be projected in the recently restored version by the Italian Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna.
The Tate Modern is a modern art gallery part of the Tate museum complex of Great Britain. The other galleries of the group include the Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives. It is located in London, in Bankside. Entries to almost all the exhibitions are free of charge.
The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in various stages between 1947 and 1963 and stood 99m tall over a width of 200m. After being abandoned for a long period because it was no longer worthwhile following the rise in the price of petrol, the power station was closed in 1981. The building was then converted by the Swiss architects Herzog &amp; de Meuron to be replaced as a space to house a museum. The Tate Modern Gallery was inaugurated on the 12th of May 2000. There is a connection along the river Thames, offered by a special motor-boat running between the Tate Modern and the Tate Britain for those visiting both galleries. Because of visitors over-crowding the museum, designed for accommodating 1.8 million visitors compared to the actual 4million yearly, an expansion has been envisaged. On the southern side of the building, a glass pyramid will be built by the Herzog &amp; de Meuron studios that will extend the exhibition capacity by 60%. The work will cost about 215 million pounds sterling and will be terminated during 2012.
The permanent collection of the Tate Modern is to be found on the third and fifth floors of the building and on the second and fourth floors you will find temporary exhibitions. The Turbine Hall (on the ground floor) once housed the electric power units. It is as high as a seven-floor building with a surface covering 3,400 m2 and is used between October and March to exhibit works being commissioned by contemporary artists. This initiative, sponsored by Unilever should at first have lasted over the first years following the opening of the museum however the popularity that this initiative met with caused its extension until 2008.
When the gallery was opened in 2000, the collections were not shown in alphabetic order but in four thematic groups: 'History/Memory/Society'; 'Nude/Action/Body'; 'Landscape/Matter/Environment'; and 'Still Life/Object/Real Life'. The reasons for this choice were to be found in the lack of works during certain historical periods. The arrangement was changed in 2006 favoring an in-depth study of particular artistic currents belonging to the 20th Century.
The artists present
· Umberto Boccioni
· Pierre Bonnard
· Georges Braque
· Paul Cézanne
· Marc Chagall
· Salvador Dalí,
· Giorgio de Chirico,
· Paul Gauguin
· Fernand Léger,
· Paul Klee,
· René Magritte,
· Henri Matisse
· Joan Miró
· Amedeo Modigliani
· Piet Mondrian
· Pablo Picasso
· Jackson Pollock
· Vincent Van Gogh
· Andy Warhol
· Vasily Kandinsky
· Anri Sala
Fonte: www.wikipedia.ithttp://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=235
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:56:19 +0200233_MonJun1117:45:24+02002012In memory of AlbertoAt five years after his death, the Associazione Culturale Alberto Grifi decided to remember Alberto through the website and YouTube channel. In the Video Section of the site you will find a selection of all the contents published on the channel dedicated to the artist. Apart from the better known titles, we have favored works that have been little seen even unedited and a selection of interviews and acknowledgements collected and published thanks to the collaboration of the authors who supplied us with the texts.
The website was created according to the wishes of Alberto as a channel for presenting the works and the artist. It was thus transformed into a space that was alive, dynamic and open to confrontation, available for welcoming the contributions of all those who wish to be involved, through the publication of texts, videos and photos. Included in the activities of the Cultural Association, Alberto Grifi, provides for all those interested, over a period of time, a part of the audio/visual and photographic material available in the Archive through an organization of publications and events online. The purpose is to meet the ongoing request for 'viewings' by scholars and enthusiasts. It is further and above all to render Alberto's works available to all those who did not know them yet. Together with all those who wish, we would like to compose a 'constellation' of fragments, comprising remembrances, thoughts, emotions and lives.
We are taking this opportunity to thank all those who have collaborated with us and who wish to follow us along this path by sending their own material and comments on our blog.
In memory of Alberto
See the video
Read the acknowledgementshttp://english.albertogrifi.com/49?post=233